My Way (2011)

[titanic3]

Pretty awesome movie about Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean found during D-Day by Allied forces in Germany's Eastern Battalion. Turns out, this guy went through being conscripted into the Japanese Imperial Army, then as a Russian conscript after being captured, and then into the Werhmacht's Eastern Battalion.  

Movie itself is pretty epic, despite some low critic reviews (but user reviews are decent, go figure). Just watched it the other day on Netflix, quite the storyline. There were some historical inaccuracies like how the same model tank is used throughout the movie for the Russians and the Germans. Though I let it past since the rest of the movie was epic. And the story is about two soldiers making it through the journey instead of one. The whole movie was just getting hit in the feels starting halfway through with some pretty decent action scenes.





http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606384/

[Nefarious]

I was considering buying it, thanks for the review.

[Dark]

Also thought it was good. Think like the first 20min most would skip it and move onto the next movie but if you can get through that it gets better. Like the snow part when they are with the Russians. Theirs also another movie that was pretty good but have to find what it was. Subtitled also

[zack1234]

So he was conscripted three times?

Did he get three war pensions?

I saw a film about two Chinese blokes who got conscripted into the Kuomintang and into the Communist army, never found out what it was called.

Typical Chinese film using 10.000 actors to do a battle scene 

[Rich46yo]

I mentioned this movie in my "foreign movies" thread. It has a great scene of an i-16 strafing and some remarkable scenes of Soviet armor going up against the Jap suicide squads. Definitely worth a sit thru.

[Ack-Ack]

Pretty awesome movie about Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean found during D-Day by Allied forces in Germany's Eastern Battalion. Turns out, this guy went through being conscripted into the Japanese Imperial Army, then as a Russian conscript after being captured, and then into the Werhmacht's Eastern Battalion.  

Movie itself is pretty epic, despite some low critic reviews (but user reviews are decent, go figure). Just watched it the other day on Netflix, quite the storyline. There were some historical inaccuracies like how the same model tank is used throughout the movie for the Russians and the Germans. Though I let it past since the rest of the movie was epic. And the story is about two soldiers making it through the journey instead of one. The whole movie was just getting hit in the feels starting halfway through with some pretty decent action scenes.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606384/

It is not about him, it's a fictional story that was inspired by Kyoungjong's adventures.

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[Ack-Ack]

So he was conscripted three times?

He was conscripted into the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army and fought the Soviets in the Battles of Khalkhin Gol and captured and sent to a Soviet labor camp with other Japanese POWs.  During the Siege of Moscow, the Soviets facing manpower shortages, conscripted him into the Soviet army to fight the Germans in the Ukraine.  Captured by the Germans during the Battle of Kharkov, he was sent to a German POW camp where he was then conscripted (or possibly volunteered) into the German army as part of the "Eastern Battalion" and fought in France where he was captured in Normandy during the D-Day landings by US troops.  He spent the rest of the war as a "special" POW and after the war, emigrated to the US where he lived out the remainder of his life.

He wasn't the only former Japanese soldier captured by the US in Europe.  During D-Day, a number of Japanese soldiers and officers that were in Europe to study the German Atlantic Wall defenses were captured by US troops.

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